April 10th – Breakfast with Mike Maddock

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Due to overwhelming response, all available spaces for this event have been sold-out. Please join us for our next event, Breakfast with Lee Ellis, on Tuesday, June 5th.

Do you have a team of Walt Disneys or Roy Disneys?

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The most innovative leaders and companies have discovered and mastered the balance between Idea Monkeys and (Ring)leaders. This fun and interactive presentation is based on Mike’s book, Free the Idea Monkey, and shows you how to manage the healthy and essential tension between the divergent and convergent thinkers on your team. The presentation will help your people distinguish between the big idea people and the ones who make sure the most important ideas actually happen. It will celebrate the roles of each and then help your leaders understand their own strengths and weaknesses — giving each ideas on how to get the most out of themselves and the people they manage, or the people who must manage them.

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Join us on Tuesday, April 10th for this exclusive Executive Seminar program, presented by SLF-Carolinas in partnership with The Charlotte Observer and the Innovation Institute at The McColl Center for Visual Art, a program that challenges executives to unleash their creative abilities and those within their organizations.

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In this interactive seminar, you will learn:

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  • What’s great about Idea Monkeys and (Ring)leaders
  • How to develop the innovator’s mind-set
  • About the innovation portfolio and where Idea Monkeys and (Ring)leaders do best
  • Key innovation truisms that the best companies have discovered
  • Techniques to get the most out of idea people and those who make the ideas happen
  • Plus, all guests will receive Mike’s latest book, Free The Idea Monkey

Space is limited to 80 participants, and will be held at the Foundation For The Carolinas in uptown Charlotte. Cost includes a continental breakfast, served from 7:30-8:00 AM. Nearby paid parking is available at the Fifth Third Center, Hearst Tower and Discovery Place parking garages.

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Learn More about Mike Maddock

Mike Maddock is an entrepreneur, an inventor, a writer and a keynote speaker. Mike calls himself an Idea Monkey because he loves to solve problems with disruptive ideas. This passion for problem solving led him to establish Maddock Douglas, Inc. in 1991. Maddock Douglas has become an internationally recognized innovation agency that helps leading corporations invent and launch new products, services and business models. It is the perfect place for Idea Monkeys and the (Ring)leaders who keep them on track.

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Entrepreneurship is a big part of Mike’s life. As an adult (we really don’t need to talk about the lawn care busi­ness and greeting card company he started in college), Mike has launched three successful businesses. He also co-chairs the Gathering of Titans Entrepreneurial Conclave at MIT, he is past president of Entrepreneurs’ Organization and future president of Young Presidents’ Organization, both chapters located in Chicago.

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A doodler, turned cartoonist, turned author, Mike has been using words and pictures to get laughs and build ideas his entire life. Today, Mike is a featured innovation columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek and author of Free the Idea Monkey…to focus on what matters most! and Brand New: Solving the Innovation Paradox.

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Mike is a frequent keynote speaker and has a passion for inspiring and empowering innovation leaders by helping them build the types of culture and processes that lead to new product success.

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